Song Of The Elf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEFFGGE H IJIJKKLMMNNL H OPOPQQRSSTDR| When the poppies with their shields | A |
| Sentinel | B |
| Forest and the harvest fields | A |
| In the bell | C |
| Of a blossom fair to see | D |
| There I stall the bumble bee | D |
| My good stud | E |
| There I stable him and hold | F |
| Harness him with hairy gold | F |
| There I ease his burly back | G |
| Of the honey and its sack | G |
| Gathered from each bud | E |
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| II | H |
| - | |
| Where the glow worm lights its lamp | I |
| There I lie | J |
| Where above the grasses damp | I |
| Moths go by | J |
| Now within the fussy brook | K |
| Where the waters wind and crook | K |
| Round the rocks | L |
| I go sailing down the gloom | M |
| Straddling on a wisp of broom | M |
| Or beneath the owlet moon | N |
| Trip it to the cricket's tune | N |
| Tossing back my locks | L |
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| III | H |
| - | |
| Ere the crowfoot on the lawn | O |
| Lifts its head | P |
| Or the glow worm's light be gone | O |
| Dim and dead | P |
| In a cobweb hammock deep | Q |
| 'Twixt two ferns I swing and sleep | Q |
| Hid away | R |
| Where the drowsy musk rose blows | S |
| And a dreamy runnel flows | S |
| In the land of Fa ry | T |
| Where no mortal thing can see | D |
| All the elfin day | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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